Great people, great products, questionable management - Anonymous employee PPG Employee Review

3.0
14 Jan 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A lot of extremely hardworking people who will do whatever is necessary to keep things running and help out their colleagues. Great products that outperform the competition.

Cons

Management is completely out of touch with the company PPG has become over the last 15-20 years and even the last 3 years through the pandemic. No one has any clue what teams do or how they work. RTO is being forced on everyone who is within driving distance of an office even if they have no association with that location aside from needing to be based out of somewhere for tax purposes. There are a lot of non-technical people making technical decisions and it never ceases to amaze me how little logic or common sense is used in the decision making process. The emphasis on a one-size-fits-all approach is killing the company. Yes, redundancies need to be eliminated after acquisitions, but you need to actually integrate those acquisitions before you eliminate the duplicate resources as well as remember why you bought the business in the first place. PPG is too big.

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Cons

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Pros

Acceptable 401K matching with immediate vesting as well as an age based deferred compensation program that has a 3 year vesting period. Standard benefits and pay consistent with industry. Acceptable safety practices defined and adhered to throughout organization.

Cons

Moderately high turnover (at least my division). Inconsistent treatment of employees (flex time allowed for some employees but not others in same work category, some employees told to use personal car or phone for work activities while others get in trouble for same type of work activity, allowing some employees the options to apply and move internally while others are not allowed - and are sometimes even forced to moved to a role for which they didn't apply against their desires). Inconsistent reporting of data and legal brushes aside your questions/findings making you seem like you did something wrong when uncovering something fishy.

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